Wargrave, Berkshire Family History Guide
Wargrave is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1614
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Strict Baptist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Waltham St Lawrence
- Hurley
- Remenham
- Sonning
- Shiplake, Oxfordshire
- Twyford
- Medmenham, Buckighamshire
- Knowl Hill
- Hambleden, Buckighamshire
- Ruscombe
- Harpsden, Oxfordshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WARGRAVE, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Berks.
The village stands on the river Thames, and on the Henley railway, 2 miles N by W of Twyford r. station; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Henley, an inn, and a ferry.
The parish includes part of Knowl-Hill chapelry, and comprises 4,314 acres. Real property, £12,002; of which £29 are in fisheries. Pop., 1,806. Houses, 343.
The manor belongs to Lord Braybrooke. W. Court is the seat of W. Holmes, Esq.; W. Lodge, of MissAusten; and W. Hill was the residence of Cowper’s friend, J. Hill
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £226. Patron, Lord Braybrooke. The church is good; and there are endowed schools with £241 a year, and charities £55. Derham, the author of “Physico-Theology,” was vicar; and Lord Barrymore was a resident.
The sub-district contains three parishes, parts of another, and an extra-parochial tract; and is in Wokingham district. Acres, 19,119. Pop., 6,658. Houses, 1,344.
The hundred contains three parishes. Acres, 16,207. Pop., 4,940. Houses, 938.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Wargrave, a parish — formerly a market-town — in the hund. of Wargrave, union of Wokingham, county of Berks; 6½ miles north-east by east of Reading, and 2 north of the Twyford station on the Great Western railway, on the south-eastern bank of the Thames, over which there is here a ferry.
Living, a vicarage in the archd. of Berks, formerly in the dio. of Salisbury, now in the dio. of Oxford; rated at £13 13s. 6½d.; gross income £230. Patron, in 1841, Lord Braybrooke. The church contains a monument to the memory of Mr. Thomas Day, (author of ‘Sandford and Merton,’) who died in 1789.
Here are three daily schools, two of which are endowed with upwards of £240 per annum, for clothing and educating 20 girls and 20 boys. Other charities, in 1836, yielded about £50 per annum, part of which was appropriated as premiums to deserving servants. Poor rates, in 1838, £552 15s.
The parish, which is situated in the midst of a beautiful country, had formerly a market, granted in 1218 to the bishop of Winchester. Bear-place, an elegant modern mansion, occupies an elevated spot surrounded by woodlands. Dr. W. Derham, author of the ‘Physico-Theology,’ was vicar of Wargrave from 1682 to 1689.
Acres 4,260. Houses 287. A. P. £6.609. Pop., in 1801, 1,134; in 1831, 1,423.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
King Robert, Wargrave, Berkshire, stage-coach master, April 27, 1827.
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Wokingham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Reading
- Poor Law Union: Wokingham
- Hundred: Wargrave
- Province: Canterbury